An environmental advocacy group is requesting the federal government investigate whether former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. broke any laws when he transported a whale carcass across state lines—a story his daughter told over a decade ago.
The Center for Biological Diversity Fund, a nonprofit organization which endorsed Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, sent a letter to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s office of law enforcement requesting the federal agency look into whether Kennedy broke any laws.
“Under both the Marine Mammal Protection Act and Endangered Species Act, it is illegal to possess any part of an animal, dead or alive, that is protected under either statute,” the fund’s director Brett Hartl wrote in the letter, a copy of which was seen by the Daily Beast. “Continued possession of any whale skull represents a significant and ongoing violation of the law.”
